Oak Ridge teen dies Saturday after crash days earlier

An Oak Ridge woman died over the weekend as a result of injuries sustained in a one-car crash on Knoxville Highway near Oliver Springs.

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By Beverly Majors/Staff

Oakridger - Oak Ridge, TN

By Beverly Majors/Staff

Posted Jun. 26, 2013 at 7:21 PM
Updated Jun 26, 2013 at 7:22 PM

By Beverly Majors/Staff

Posted Jun. 26, 2013 at 7:21 PM
Updated Jun 26, 2013 at 7:22 PM

An Oak Ridge woman died over the weekend as a result of injuries sustained in a one-car crash on Knoxville Highway near Oliver Springs.

A Tennessee Highway Patrol report said 19-year-old Jaanai Xaeren Dickerson of Oak Ridge died Saturday at the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville.

According to Trooper Adam Woody, Dickerson was driving north on Knoxville Highway, or state Highway 62, in Morgan County, where her 2004 Chevrolet Malibu ran off the right side of the road. Dickerson over corrected ,which sent the car to the opposite lane, where it "ran through a guardrail" and landed in a creek bed, the trooper stated in the report.

The trooper's report gives no other information about the specific location of the fatal accident.

Dickerson was properly restrained and neither alcohol nor drugs were not factors in the crash. However, blood tests were requested, the report said.

She had worked as a waitress at Lincoln’s Sports Grille in Oak Ridge, where a Celebration of Life will be held following a memorial service set for Thursday at Weatherford Mortuary.